Works
- From asceticism to administration of wealth: medieval monasteries and the pitfalls of rationalization, Organization Studies 8(2), 103 to 123, 1987
- Organisation, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, third edition, fully revised (de Gruyter Lehrbuch), 1992
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Organization theory in the German tradition and the history of organizations
Ideas
Monasteries as the first designed organizations. Medieval monasteries were the first deliberately designed organizations in the West, and their rationalized work produced wealth that undermined the ascetic ideal. Caveat: A historical interpretation. Read in its abstract only.
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